Seabourn, a leader in ultra-luxury ocean and expedition travel, will offer a wide variety of gourmet dining experiences and cuisines on its new ultra-luxury purpose-built expedition ship, Seabourn Pursuit, which began its inaugural season in summer 2023.
With a diverse array of flavors and cuisines, guests can indulge in exceptional culinary experiences while enjoying breathtaking views from around the world.
Each dining option showcases the high quality and breadth of cuisine created by the line’s highly skilled culinary team. From top-quality ingredients and an eye toward the latest culinary innovations, Seabourn curates dining that rivals the finest restaurants anywhere.
“We take great pride in offering our extraordinary guests world-class gourmet dining prepared by our very highly skilled and passionate culinary team,” said Natalya Leahy, president of Seabourn. “With Seabourn Pursuit, we’ve purposefully designed the culinary offerings to elevate the ultra-luxury expedition experience. After exploring breathtaking remote destinations, our guests can unwind and create even more cherished memories over wonderfully prepared meals, a glass of wine, or the perfectly crafted cocktail.”
As with any Seabourn ship, all dining experiences are complimentary, and guests can dine when and where they choose. Premium spirits, fine wines and other beverages are complimentary everywhere on board, with a number of special selections also available for an additional charge.
Seabourn Pursuit features the following dining experiences:
The Restaurant: Main fine-dining venue offering an open-seating dining room for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Two new recipes will be introduced to the already extensive menu each week, totaling more than 100 new recipes per year. New recipes will include lighter-fare dishes, using a number of ingredients such as fresh oysters, Dover sole and more.
The Restaurant also offers an expansive wine selection, with Old World and New World labels that include a number of fine complimentary choices. Guests can browse the extensive list of premium wines available for an additional charge.
The Colonnade: A more casual alternative for buffet or table service breakfast and lunch, and themed dinner served tableside.
Earth & Ocean: Available on select nights in the Colonnade, skilled chefs create an imaginative array of fresh, inventive dishes for a sophisticated menu that celebrates eclectic traditional flavors from around the world.
The Patio: Casual alfresco dining for lunch, weather permitting.
Sushi in The Club: A variety of sushi bites freshly made to order every evening.
Seabourn Square: The social hub of the ship serving delectable specialty coffees, pastries, sandwiches and homemade gelati throughout the day and into the evening.
Pantry in the Bow Lounge: Freshly prepared light fare and refreshments in a lounge just behind the extensive bow deck of the ship.
Constellation Lounge: A nod to the heritage of Seabourn, the Constellation Lounge is the spot for early morning pastries and beverages, elegant afternoon tea-time, and cocktail-time tapas.
24-Hour In-Suite Dining: Guests can order from a new, elevated in-suite dining menu, or from The Restaurant menu served course-by-course in their suite or on their private veranda. The new menu brings Seabourn’s signature luxury and sophistication to its in-suite dining experience, and also includes lighter and fresher vegetarian and vegan dishes.
Seabourn Pursuit Inaugural Season
Seabourn Pursuit offers a luxurious “yacht like” small ship experience, enhanced by a wide range of expedition activities led by an expert 24-person team of scientists, scholars, historians and naturalists.
The ship is designed and built for remote, diverse environments to PC6 Polar Class standards and includes modern hardware and technology that extends the ship’s global deployment and capabilities.
The ship has close to 30,000 square feet of deck space with special touches at every turn. Those include indoor and outdoor guest areas with nearly 270-degree views, and a 4K GSS Cineflex Camera mounted on the mast of the Constellation Lounge, broadcasting imagery from miles ahead on monitors located throughout the ship and in guest suites.
In the fall of 2023, Seabourn Pursuit, will sail five voyages in the Mediterranean before embarking on two voyages across the Atlantic and through the Caribbean. The ship will then begin its expedition journeys, taking guests to explore coastal South America, the Amazon and Antarctica into late March 2024.
Seabourn Pursuit will then head across the islands of the South Pacific and eventually to Australia, which will be the start of the line’s first exploration of the Kimberley region in the Northern Territory and Western Australia. In addition to the Kimberley, Seabourn Pursuit will visit Papua New Guinea, West Papua, Indonesia, and sail across the South Pacific between Chile and Melanesia between March and October 2024.
SOURCE: Seabourn press release